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Monday, July 10, 2017

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The Russian President congratulated Foreign Intelligence Service staff and veterans on the 95th anniversary of Russian illegal intelligence. (Source: Kremlin.ru) *Memri:* *At The 95th Anniversary Of Russian Illegal Intelligence, Putin Touts Spies, Warns: 'Foreign Intelligence Services Directed Against Russia And Our Allies Is On The Rise'* On June 28, the Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the headquarters of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) to attend a gala event devoted to the 95th anniversary of Russian illegal intelligence.[1] During the event, Putin stressed that ...more »

Residents in Claiborne County, Tennesseet are upset because Powell Valley Electric Cooperative sprayed herbicides under power lines that killed their plants, trees, and gardens and poisoned the soil on their property- and all without warning. RELATED ARTICLE: HuffPo: Tests Show Cancer-Linked Herbicide in Breakfast

Photo Credit: Gregory Ripps/U.S. Army *C4ISRNet:* *The hard truth: an intelligence analysts' everyday life, revealed* In a telling glimpse into the lives of military intelligence analysts, Courtney, staff sergeant and intelligence analyst for the Air Force, recently was joined for a day by a Washington Post reporter. She and many others in her position are first in a chain running from her base in Virginia to air operations in Qatar all the way to the drone pilots scattered across the United States. In her position, Courtney is expected to witness killings or take part in strikes ...more »

*“Extended Adolescence: Men In America Are Working * *A Lot Less And Playing Video Games A Lot More”* by Michael Snyder "If you could stay home and play video games all day, would you do it? According to a brand new report that was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research on Monday, American men from the ages of 21 to 30 are working a lot less these days. In fact, on average men in this age group worked 203 fewer hours per year in 2015 than they did in 2000. So what did they do with all of that extra time? According to the study, a large portion of the time that young me...more »

*Damien Sharkov, Newsweek:* *Does Putin Speak English? After Trump Meeting, The Kremlin Weighs In* Russian President Vladimir Putin may have been praising Donald Trump’s listening skills last week but on Monday, his own abilities as a good speaker were receiving plaudits. Putin’s English, seldom heard by western audiences, is good enough to correct his translators, according to the man hired to speak on Putin’s behalf. “In free discourse, at the sidelines of summits, he often speaks in English by himself,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the state-run Rossiya 1 television ch...more »

(*Click on Image to Enlarge*) Families and individuals on the move swell into long-used migration routes across the globe. *Daily Mail*: *Europe is 'underestimating' scale of migrant crisis and could be flooded by millions of Africans in 'biblical exodus' unless urgent action is taken says top official* * Antonio Tajani said the severity of the migrant crisis is being underestimated * European Parliament president called on urgent action to confront problem * Comes as Italy grapples with increasing flow of people arriving from the sea The number of migrants crossing into Europe fr...more »

Virtually all recent polling shows that growing majorities of Americans view Trump's personal characteristics-- like integrity, honesty, intelligence, etc-- in negative lights. The last to go was the question about Trump as a strong leader. That would took the longest time to start slipping. But, finally, the polls are starting to show that people are distinguishing between a bully and a leader-- or at least realizing that bullies are weak, not strong. In this morning's *Politico* Alex Isenstadt delves into one of Trump's most infamous, pervasive and least admired characteristics-...more »

Innovation and accreditation do not have to be at odds, Dr. Barbara Gellman-Danley, president of the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), said at a panel on accreditation at the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) conference.

The U.S. Department of Education drew both scorn and praise Monday at a public hearing on its plans to revamp two Obama-era rules meant to protect students from shady schools that leave them saddled with debt and no viable way to pay it off.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — A judge on Monday heard about worried texts from members of a Penn State fraternity and defense questions about whether a pledge had been drinking voluntarily before he died in February. The preliminary hearing for the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and 16 of its members, accused in the death of 19-year-old pledge […]

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — Lake Superior State University says its board of trustees has named Peter Mitchell its interim president following the death President Thomas Pleger. Mitchell was president of Albion College from 1997-2007. Since then, he has operated a consulting company, Proactive Transition Management, that manages change and transitions for colleges and universities. […]

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — New Mexico State University’s finalized budget will freeze over 90 vacant faculty and staff positions and lay off two personnel. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports university officials said Friday that the moves will close an $8 million gap in the institution’s budget. Administrators say the personnel cuts are much smaller than […]

*"Watching the Thinker"* by Eckhart Tolle "What exactly do you mean by “watching the thinker”? When someone goes to the doctor and says, “I hear a voice in my head,” he or she will most likely be sent to a psychiatrist. The fact is that, in a very similar way, virtually everyone hears a voice, or several voices, in their head all the time: the involuntary thought processes that you don’t realize you have the power to stop. Continuous monologues or dialogues. You have probably come across “mad” people in the street incessantly talking or muttering to themselves. Well, that’s not m...more »

*"Burnout"* by Charles Hugh Smith "At least once a year, I completely burn out: exhausted, I no longer have the energy or will to care about anything but the bare minimum for survival. Everything not essential for survival gets jettisoned or set aside. This goes with the territory if you're trying to accomplish a lot of things that are intrinsically complex and open-ended - for example, running a business, being a parent, juggling college, work, family, community commitments, etc. I am confident many if not most of you have experienced burnout due to being overwhelmed by open-ende...more »

After Trump Bows To Saudis, Decision To Release Evidence Of Saudis Funding 9/11 Gets Reversed by Rachel Blevins, http://www.activistpost.com/ President Trump’s change in attitude towards Saudi Arabia has apparently had a trickle-down effect, as a federal judge in Miami has reversed her decision to push for the release of crucial documents revealing information on the funding […]

Published on Jul 10, 2017 A wordy State Department report slammed Moscow for underfunding a church-run shelter offering “food and housing” to the homeless in the Russian town of Kitezh – a mythical place that perished in a lake eight centuries ago, according to ancient legend. end

Published on Jul 10, 2017 Germany has begun the process of withdrawing its troops from the Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey, from where German troops have been carrying out reconnaissance missions as part of the US-led coalition’s campaign in Syria and Iraq. The move follows tensions with Ankara. end

PESKOV: Those Who Say Trump is Stupid are Talking “Delusional Trash” by Adam Garrie, http://theduran.com/ The Russian Presidential Spokesman also called the meeting a “win-win encounter”. – Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has commented on Vladimir Putin’s meeting with Donald Trump after a lengthy debriefing from the Russian President. Peskov echoed statements from Vladimir Putin who […]

Sheeple: naive, gullible, easily deceived, useful idiots complicit in their own destruction and the destruction of others. People with an amazing ability to accept any amount of BULLSHIT. – ‘RussiaGate’: Not One Single Scrap of Solid Evidence for Trump/Russia Election Hacking Has Emerged by Craig Murray, http://original.antiwar.com/ After six solid months of coordinated allegation from the mainstream […]

U.S. President Donald Trump is welcomed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the first day of the G-20 summit. AP Photo/Jens Meyer What does it take to be elected chancellor of the most populous country in Europe four times in a row? Germany does not have a system of term limits for heads of state. Candidates for chancellor can seek reelection as long as their party continues to support their candidacy. However, it’s not common. The only postwar German politician to be elected for four consecutive terms was current Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mentor, Helmut Kohl, who passed away la...more »

Patricia Sullivan, Associate Professor of Public Policy and the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense, University of North Carolina – Chapel HillatPolitics + Society – The Conversation - 3 hours ago

In May, President Donald Trump authorized a plan to arm the YPG, a Kurdish militia in Syria. A month later, the YPG and their Arab partners in the Syrian Democratic Forces began the fight to take the Syrian city of Raqqa back from the Islamic State. While the U.S., Russia and Jordan agreed to a ceasefire in southwest Syria that went into effect Sunday, the intense battle for Raqqa continues in the north of the country. Turkey, a NATO ally and U.S. partner, is fiercely opposed to providing weapons to the YPG because Turkey considers the fighters to be terrorists. But the Pentagon ...more »

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Attendees take photographs of the Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 during its flying display at the Farnborough International Airshow in the U.K. on July 12, 2016. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg *Bloomberg:* *F-35 Program Costs Jump to $406.5 Billion in Latest Estimate* * After declines, bill for Lockheed Martin fighter to rise 7% * Trump has publicly lobbied to get jet’s contract costs down The cost of the F-35 jet program, already the most expensive U.S. weapons program ever, is estimated to climb further as the plane’s production period gets extended, according to figures submitt...more »

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*Kyle Mizokami* *Security, Asia* Confused yet? Some of the most remarkable vessels sailing today in any navy are Japanese. After more than six decades, Japan can once again count large ships with full-length flight decks and roomy, bow-to-stern aircraft carriers as part of its navy. Except don’t call it a navy—and whatever you do, don’t call them aircraft carriers. Japan has three “helicopter destroyers”: *Hyuga, *its sister ship *Ise* and the larger *Izumo*. Each strongly resembles an aircraft carrier, but due to political and engineering concerns are technically not—nor ever ...more »

*Kris Osborn* *Security, * How the navy's 5-inch gun could get a big upgrade. *The initiative to develop longer range precision weapons is entirely consistent with the Navy’s often discussed “distributed lethality” strategy. The idea is to not only better arm the fleet with more lethal and effective offensive and defensive weapons but also enable the fleet to better “distribute” its forces across wider swaths of geography, Navy leaders explain. * The Navy is seeking longer-range precision weapons for its deck-mounted “5-inch” guns to better destroy enemy targets, defend marit...more »

*Simon Serfaty* *Security, Americas* [image: U.S. President Donald Trump attends the bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany July 8, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria] History now seems to be making a dangerous U-turn. One hundred years ago, America reluctantly entered a war that set new standards of inhumanity among—and between—the Great Powers which had started that war nearly three years earlier. The U.S. intervention was costly but proved decisive. After victory, a twenty-year time out, dubbed “the interwar years,” ended wi...more »

*Andrew C. Kuchins* *Security, Americas* [image: Russia's President Vladimir Putin talks to U.S. President Donald Trump during their bilateral meeting at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria] A relatively normal first meeting between Russian and American leaders is a good thing. At long last, nearly six months after his inauguration, Donald Trump finally had the opportunity to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin for more than two hours on Friday at the G-20 summit in Hamburg. Cable-news networks spent the weekend buzzing, as pundits dissected t...more »

*Mohammed Ayoob* *Foreign Policy, Asia* [image: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) walks with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as they visit Olga Beach and a water desalination unit operated by G.A.L. Water Technologies, near Hadera, Israel July 6, 2017. Kobi Gideon/Courtesy of Government Press Office/GPO/Handout] Narendra Modi's visit to Israel marks the culmination of years of normalization. By all accounts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel earlier this month was very successful. It was the first time an Indian head of government had visited the ...more »

*Daniel R. DePetris* *Foreign Policy, Middle East* The Trump administration’s policy now appears to be to manage the Syrian conflict rather than to resolve it. Anybody who was expecting Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to pull a repeat of the 1945 Yalta Conference during their first meeting at the G-20 Summit went home sorely disappointed. Absent the handshakes, the hundreds of camera clicks from photographers, and the customary pleasantries between world leaders, the Trump-Putin confab concluded after two hours and fifteen minutes with only a few small achievements. Th...more »

Sunday morning everyone who loves making fun of Señor Trumpanzee's Adderall-fueled tweet storms, had a field day. The one above was a sensation-- at least among those who enjoy mocking the imbecile Putin helped install in the White House. Did anyone imagine Trump's excursion to Hamburg and his opportunity to pay homage to the Russian dictator in person *wouldn't* be a farce? Probably my favorite response to the numbskull *tweet du jour* came from the Trump-Putin allies at Wikileaks. The election system in Georgia was hacked, likely at Putin's command, in time for the Ossoff-Hand...more »

James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017 This seems to be based on reporting from, who else, Fox and Friends. Report accuses material James Comey leaked to a friend contained top secret information pic.twitter.com/Hkg4cAb6o9 — FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) July 10, 2017 And THAT reporting links to an article over on The Hill. Now what is interesting about that Hill article is that it was written by a John Solomon, who was just named as The Hill's Executive Vice President, Digital. Before that h...more »

Authors of the Combahee River Statement reflect on its impact and contemplate what lessons it may hold for those organizing against the Trump administration. The post Authors Of Combahee River Statement, Which Profoundly Influenced Black Feminism, Mark 40th Anniversary appeared first on Shadowproof.

A misdemeanor charge of "stalking" against indigenous journalist Myron Dewey was dropped by Morton County prosecutors. The post Charge Dropped Against Indigenous Journalist Who Documented DAPL Construction With Drone appeared first on Shadowproof.

X22 Report, “The Fed Is Getting Ready To Pull The Plug On The Markets, This Is A Game Changer” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-us7Vp5NXw *Related followup report:* X22 Report, “The Bad Guys Are Now Being Outed As More Evidence Pours In” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjeoE_iHwrc

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (2:00 A.M.) – On Monday, the Iraqi Air Force conducted dozens of sorties over ISIS-held western Anbar amid a wider bid to prevent jihadist militants from a safe haven on the desert border with Syria. According to a military source close to Al-Masdar News, three car bombs factories and three weapons storage bases […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (1:45 A.M.) – Al-Masdar News has obtained rare images of an air field operated by US warplanes in the Sarrin Plains, located in the far eastern countryside of Aleppo near the provincial border with Raqqa. The pictures show a large US plane taking off and plenty of Humvees protecting the site. An American […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (1:15 A.M.) – After being completely expelled from Aleppo province by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) earlier this month, ISIS insurgents have begun targeting the government-held M-42 highway that stretches across Hama through Aleppo to Raqqa. In what appeared to be a hit-and-run attack on Monday, the Islamic State deployed machine-gun manned pickup […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (11:30 P.M.) – With the battle for Raqqa city unfolding before the world audience, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are simultaneously pushing eastwards along the M4-Highway to Deir Ezzor amid a bid to expel ISIS from the Euphrates River. On Monday afternoon, SDF forward units imposed full control over Ukayrishah after clashes went […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (11:30 P.M.) – Due to a series of succesful military campaigns in the capital, recruitment rates have surged for the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) as hundreds of local residents in two newly liberated east Damascus suburbs are signing up for military service. On Monday alone, some 50 combat-ready men joined the SAA in […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (11:00 P.M.) – The Sanaa-based Yemeni government released a series of photos on Monday showing Houthi-led troops of the Popular Committees raiding a Saudi Arabian border area in the contested Jizan governorate. After storming the Al-Jamayem military base, considered an important frontline fortification for the Saudi Arabian Army, the Yemeni fighters demolished the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

*Michael Knights, BBC/Washington Institute for Near East Policy*: *Mosul defeat a blow to IS, but not the end* On Monday, so-called Islamic State (IS) was evicted from the last parcel of land that it controlled in the city of Mosul. A battle that began 266 days ago has finally concluded with intense house-to-house fighting and a last stand on the western bank of the River Tigris. In a sense, the battle ended where it started. On 6 June 2014, IS forces staged a diversionary attack in northern Mosul that was intended to draw Iraqi forces away from a prison break in a town called ...more »

WATCH TONIGHT! RFK, Jr. will be on the Tucker Carlson Show tonight at 8 p.m. EDT (Monday July 10th). SHARE with friends! After the show, please share your story and thank Tucker Carlson for discussing this important issue: comments@foxnewsinsider.com Find...

The extent of Arctic ice fell to a new wintertime low in March 2017. But springtime ice persisted and June and July are hanging around the decadal average. The graph shows the last two weeks ending day 190, July 9, 2017. 2016 and 2017 are nearly average and lower than 9M km2, while 2007 is […]

Just about the only good thing we can say about the verbal diarrhea of the Trumps is that, like a nugget of gold in a pile of ore, once in a while they'll reward us by shooting themselves in the foot. They do this for two reasons: They think they're above the law and, as with their father, the unholy trio of spawn that's currently running wild on Capitol Hill when they're not jet-setting to China to Trump-brand massage parlors and prostitution services is just plain stupid. At the very least, the four elder Trumps are bereft of the common sense that Mother Nature invested in th...more »

Miscellaneous material to start your week. - The Courage Coalition discusses why economic justice is necessary for social equality. But Ed Finn writes that instead, Canada is pushing people into serfdom: Today's big business executives are not so outspoken, at least not in public, but privately they could make the same boast. Their basic agenda is not that much different from that of their 19th-century forerunners, whom they envy and seek to emulate. And what's really scary is that they now have amassed almost as much of the political and economic power they need to recreate the "b...more »

*Curt Mills* *Politics, Eurasia* [image: Ambassador Kurt Volker during a 2009 visit to Ramstein Air Base, Germany. U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Nathan Lipscomb] Kurt Volker, widely known as a tough-minded and accomplished diplomat, confronts his biggest challenge in working to implement the Minsk agreements. As Donald Trump spoke with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Hamburg late last week, his State Department announced the appointment of a tough-minded former NATO ambassador to serve as Washington’s new point man on Ukraine. His mandate is to help implement the Minsk a...more »

United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura attends a news conference during the Intra Syria talks at the U.N. offices in Geneva, Switzerland, May 19, 2017. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy/File Photo *Reuters:** U.N. lauds U.S.-Russian truce in Syria, but warns on partition risk* Agreements to de-escalate the fighting in Syria could simplify the conflict and help to stabilise the country, but such accords must be an interim measure and avoid partition, U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura told a news conference on Monday. Speaking at the start of five days of peace talks in Geneva, d...more »

Donald Trump Jr. has a new lawyer: Donald Trump Jr. has hired a lawyer to represent him in Russia-related investigations, his office and the lawyer said on Monday.... Trump Jr. hired New York lawyer Alan Futerfas, who specializes in criminal defense. More about Futerfas: His website brags he's got 25 years of "litigation experience representing individuals and companies in traditional and white collar cases, trials and appeals, SEC investigations and regulatory matters," even successfully arguing an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court. Futerfas's clients have included hedge funds...more »

Photos by Western Shoshone Carl Bad Bear Sampson, as Longest Walk 5 walked into Arlington, Virginia, on the final stretch of the coast to coast walk to bring awareness to drug abuse and domestic violence. Thank you Bad Bear for walking and sharing your photos from Longest Walks 2, 3, 4, and 5 with Censored News.

[image: united-nations-educated-people-threaten-sustainability] Senior leaders of the United Nations gathered recently to continue plotting the future of globalized pseudo-education, which they said must be imposed on every child on the planet to advance the UN's radical plan for humanity known as “Agenda 2030.”

[image: at-g20-summit-trump-marshals-support-against-north-korea-missile-tests] Meeting with the leaders of Asian nations on the sidelines of the G20 economic summit at Hamburg, Germany, on July 8, President Trump condemned communist North Korea’s ongoing development of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.

We've talked about it a little bit recently and how immaterial labour is becoming increasingly important, but how should it be understood? In their *Multitude*, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri define two forms: The first form refers to labour that is primarily intellectual or linguistic, such as problem solving, symbolic and analytical tasks, and linguistic expressions. This kind of immaterial labour produces ideas, symbols, codes, texts, linguistic figures, images and other such products. We call the other principle form of immaterial labour "affective labour". Unl...more »

Photos by Western Shoshone Carl Bad Bear Sampson, as Longest Walk 5 walked into Arlington, Virginia, on the final stretch of the coast to coast walk to bring awareness to drug abuse and domestic violence.

Susan Collins on Don Jr.: "Our intelligence committee needs to interview him and others who attended the meeting." https://t.co/kecgMISPmO pic.twitter.com/QZH1zSmutw — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 10, 2017 Courtesy of the AP: *A senior Republican on the Senate Intelligence committee says the panel should interview President Donald Trump’s eldest son about a meeting he and other Trump associates had last year with a Russian lawyer to hear information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. * *Sen. Susan Collins of Maine told reporters on Monday that “our intelligen...more »

*Maine Peace Walk in Brunswick last October* Maine Peace Walk for Conversion, Community and Climate October 13-21 Bath, Maine *Attending: *John Morris, Russell Wray, Martha Spiess, Tom Kircher, Jason Rawn, Bruce Gagnon. *Walk Vision:* The idea of this year’s peace walk will be to stay in Bath the majority of the time and hold vigils twice a day at BIW (morning and afternoon). The middle part of the day we will go door-to-door to drop flyers at every house and business in the city about the conversion of the shipyard to sustainable technologies to help deal with global warming. O...more »

Federal Police moving through west Mosul’s Old City (AFP/Getty Images) The battle of Mosul has reached its ninth month, but it is finally coming to an end. It has been one of the toughest urban battles since probably the fighting for cities in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. With the conflict winding down there is time to reflect and analyze how the campaign went down. To help do that is David M. Witty. He is a retired U.S. Special Forces Colonel. He served in the first Gulf War as an adviser to the Kuwaiti forces. He then took part in Operation Iraqi Freedom being an adviser ...more »

There is plenty to be positive about coming from last week's face-to-face meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin. One indicator of how important/well the meeting went was the fact that the mainstream media immediately reverted to its "Russia hacked the election" obsession, even as the pillars of that absurd assertion fall, one by one. The agreement on ceasefire zones in parts of southwest Syria are also a positive sign if it means the US and Russia are taking a step back from direct confrontation in that country. However, there are pitfalls. Will it mean more US military involve...more »

*VOA: **Battle to Retake Raqqa a Desperate House-to-House Fight* The battle to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State terror group is a fight increasingly without front lines. The U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have breached the old city and control about a quarter of the terror group's de facto capital, say American officials, but holding what has already been seized is proving a struggle. Disputes between the SDF and some Free Syrian Army militias who have started to participate in the battle isn't helping the advance, but the biggest obstacle ...more »

Ted Lieu tweeted this old article by Alice Park in *Time* Magazine today, The Fascinating Reason Why Liars Keep On Lying. I can't read Ted's mind and I don't claim I can ascribe motivation to his actions on Twitter but... I'd put up money that he had a certain Señor Trumpanzee in mind when he tweeted-- possibly Paul Ryan as well. I certainly read Park's piece with Trump, Ryan and the post-truth GOP in mind. "Once a liar, always a liar, the old saying goes," wrote Park. "Turns out there’s some scientific truth to that: researchers have tracked down how the brain makes lying easier a...more »

Originally posted on polarbearscience: There’s been no word as yet, either from tour operators or polar bear researchers, that Western Hudson Bay polar bears have come ashore for the summer/fall season. Andrew Derocher reported at the end of June that the bears tagged by his team were still on the ice and as I write…

Classical Renaissance World Land-Bridge New International Economic Order American Credit System Video of y-eOfrqxqcU The Schiller Institute, in collaboration with the China Energy Fund Committee and the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture, held an all-day conference in New York City on July 7, 2017, bringing together farm leaders, agricultural scientists, engineers, and political and diplomatic officials from throughout the United States, China, and other nations. The first of the panels centered on a food production and trade policy that could feed the world.

Report says government investigators have found Comey's memos of his meetings with President Trump are government property which contain classified information. He had no right to take them or leak them to the media and doing so might be a crime. The post Comey ‘stole memos’, ‘leaked classified information’ appeared first on The Duran.

Following a barrage of criticism in the US President Trump casts doubt on whether the joint cyber security working party he agreed to set up with President Putin will achieve anything. The post Trump backtracks on deal with Putin on cyber security appeared first on The Duran.

*Sofia Adamson* - What do dedicated social drinkers and outright alcoholics see when they give up 'spirits?' The post 20 Common Things People Realize When They Quit Drinking Alcohol appeared first on Waking Times.

*Reuters:** Iraqi PM declares victory over Islamic State in Mosul* Iraq's prime minister declared victory over Islamic State in Mosul on Monday, three years after the militants seized the city and made it the stronghold of a "caliphate" they said would take over the world. "I announce from here the end and the failure and the collapse of the terrorist state of falsehood and terrorism which the terrorist Daesh announced from Mosul," Haider al-Abadi said in a speech shown on state television, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State. A 100,000-strong alliance of Iraqi government un...more »

By Paul Homewood CBS have a report on rising sea levels at Tangier Island, in Chesapeake Bay here The video is worth watching. The CBS reporter makes the usual attempts to blame it on “climate change”, but the locals know too much to fall for that old pony. They know that sea levels […]

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (10:30 P.M.) – Officials in the Rojava administration (Syrian Kurdistan) say they intend to impose income tax upon civilians living under Kurdish rule in Hasakah province to fund public institutions and services in northeastern Syria. According to a report by a local Kurdish outlet, residents earning up to 100,000 Syrian Pounds (roughly 200 […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 P.M.) – A large smuggling operation did not go to plan on Monday after the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) stopped a truck that tried to enter the rebel-held East Ghouta farmland on the outskirts of Damascus. Upon approaching a SAA checkpoint in east Damascus, the driver was stopped and the lorry thoroughly […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:40 P.M.) – On Monday, one of the largest factions within Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) announced it would not fight for the Al-Qaeda affiliated group before infighting between rival jihadist groups was halted indefinitely. The Al-Tamkeen Brigade, once the backbone of Ahrar Al-Sham but now an integral part of HTS, said it in […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:35 P.M.) – The ISIS-linked Amaq media group has released a short clip showing the aftermath of recent strikes carried out by US airpower in the embattled city of Raqqa. Albeit propaganda, at the forefront of this brief video snippet are real scenes of immense urban devastation and the corpses of children. Even […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

*Kyle Mizokami* *Security, * And China, too. *Sixty-two Los Angeles–class submarines were built between 1976 and 1996. Not all of them served at once—some of the earliest subs were retired starting in 1995 with just seventeen years of service to avoid costly nuclear refueling costs while the production line was still running! Today thirty-eight are still on active duty. The Seawolf class, meant to provide deeper-diving submarines capable of Arctic operations, was canceled at three ships, due to cost overruns and the quest for a 1990s “peace dividend.” The true replacements for ...more »

*Ryan Pickrell* *Security, Asia* What happens now? North Korea offered a rare admission that international sanctions are having a detrimental effect on society, but it remains to be seen whether the increased pressure will deter the regime from continuing its weapons development programs. Kim Chol, the director of the Economic Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences, revealed in an interview with Kyodo News that petroleum prices have risen sharply in recent months due to international sanctions. In response, the North Korean regime is encouraging people to use public trans...more »

*Paul R. Pillar* *Presidency Russia, Europe United States* President Donald Trump’s second foreign trip, to attend a G-20 summit meeting, demonstrated how far and how fast U.S. global leadership and influence have fallen. This observation is warranted despite the usual tendency in the media to overplay summit meetings and the atmospherics surrounding them, in contrast to inattention given to ordinary but important diplomacy conducted at other levels. Then again, with a depopulated and demoralized State Department, much of the important business of the Trump administration has t...more »

Seriously? You think this is MY fault?Courtesy of Media Matters: *Fringe media supporting President Donald Trump have claimed that former President Barack Obama violated federal law and is acting as a “shadow president” because he has talked to former and current foreign leaders since the end of his presidency. The claims, which have at least partially been parroted on Fox News, are an extension of conservative media’s ongoing conspiracy theory that Obama runs a “shadow government.” * *Since Trump’s inauguration, conservative outlets have baselessly claimed that Obama is running ...more »

One of the leading artists in the artists' town of Kirkcudbright is Stewart Morrison. Above, we see the Kikcudbright garden where Stewart does some of his paintings. Tolbooth, by Stewart Morrison. Red Chimney, Kirkcudbright, by Stewart Morrison. Stewart can be compared to Samuel Peploe, whose painting we see below. . Peploe. Stewart studied physics at university. Stewart paints scenes from around Scotland. Catterline, by Stewart Morrison. Crail Harbour by Stewart Morrison. Fountain Square, Dumfries, by Stewart Morrison. The much neglected fountain in Dumfri...more »

*MONDAY, JULY 10, 2017Human history's most obvious point:* Here at this incomparable site, we could never be mad at Kevin Drum. Yes, we preferred the old Kevin Drum, the one who hadn't been radicalized. But we've now surveyed every one of our youthful analysts. They all say, to a man, to a woman, that they still love their Uncle Drum. That said, good grief! When it comes to skill-free living, we're required to post the brief excerpt shown below. In it, we're back to the question of when to call something a "lie:" DRUM (7/8/17): [The Daily Howler] says "profoundly misleading," I ...more »

*CawRANT Events #50* Good Morning Everybody! It is an absolutely gorgeous summer day on the West Coast. I just finished my morning walk with my dogs...before the heat of the day sets in. Yesterday, it got quite muggy towards evening. First, a few housekeeping matters. Like other bloggers, I will be taking a regular two week vacation shortly. Weather permitting, we plan our usual sailing cruise in the Gulf Islands for the last week of July/First week of August. As in recent years, I will take my laptop and may do a bit of blogging as time, opportunity and wifi permits. We ...more »

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A new Pew survey is getting a lot of attention because it reveals that Republican voters have grown to despise colleges and universities: I'm actually surprised that it's takien this long for GOP voters' opinions to turn against higher learning, given how popular professor-bashing has always been on the right. But here's a result from the same poll that I think is more significant, given how much talk we've heard about the supposed blue-collarization of the GOP and the alleged overlap between the party's voters and supporters of Bernie Sanders: By 46% to 37%, more Republicans say...more »

*(Click on Image to Enlarge)* Smile: The family photo of G20 leaders is a tradition which sees the longest-serving leaders get closer to the center, with the country hosting the summit having its head of government in the center. That put Trump second from left, beside Emmanuel Macron, the newly-elected French president and Joko Widodo, the president of Indonesia *Akio Fujii, Nikkei Asian Review:** International cooperation without US has its limitations* *Trump aloof at G-20 summit while free trade under threat* HAMBURG - United States President Donald Trump left midway through a ...more »

Dear Friends, Supporters and Family, It was a sad day on Saturday when I had to tell Leonard that his friend and sister Wanda Siers and her four gran Dear Friends, Supporters and Family, It was a sad day on Saturday when I had to tell Leonard that his friend and sister Wanda Siers and her four grandchildren: Janae, Jeremy, Winyan, and

*New York Times:** ‘Time to Move Forward’ on Russia, Trump Says, as Criticism Intensifies* WASHINGTON — President Trump tried without success on Sunday to put the matter of Russia’s election meddling behind him, insisting that he had “strongly pressed” President Vladimir V. Putin on the matter twice in a private meeting last week and declaring that it was “time to move forward.” But if Mr. Trump believed his willingness to raise the election interference directly with Mr. Putin would quiet questions about whether he could be trusted to stand up to Moscow — an issue that has shadow...more »

On Saturday, July 8th, the "Sala Perla" of the Palazzo del Casinò was crowded by 600 attendees, who filled all seats and then some. The event, titled "Universo: tempo zero - breve storia dell'inizio", was organized in conjunction with the international EPS conference, which takes place until this Wednesday at Lido of Venice. It featured a discussion between the anchor, Silvia Rosa Brusin, and a few guests: Fabiola Gianotti, general director of CERN; Antonio Masiero, vice-president of INFN; and Mirko Pojer, responsible of operations of the LHC collider. The program was enriched by a ...more »

Craig Murray, the former British ambassador and friend of Julian Assange who says he has personal knowledge of the DNC and Podesta leaks, rejects 'Russian cutouts' theory and refers again to Seth Rich. The post RUSSIAGATE: Craig Murray rejects ‘Russian cutouts’ theory, refers to Seth Rich appeared first on The Duran.

He compared it to what the mainstream media would have said if Chelsea Clinton took her mother's place. The post Trump BLASTS critics ridiculing him for allowing Ivanka to take his place at G20 appeared first on The Duran.

This special ceremony is a traditional cultural celebration where generations, young and old, gather to socialize, dance, sing, rekindle friendships and build new relationships. With each beat of their sacred drums, more than 700 tribal dancers lifted their spirits and celebrated, life, family, culture and each other. For three days during the weekend, Native American tribes from all over the United States, and some from Canada, participated in "Wacipi"— which in the Dakota language means "they dance"—or a powwow. Everything from the brightly colored regalia — the traditional and ...more »

As part of a faith-based social justice ministry, Cris played a sustaining role for many movement activists and groups. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | July 10, 2017 AUSTIN — Cris Cunningham died on June 23, 2017, in … finish reading Alice Embree : *METRO* | Alice Kresensky Cunningham (July 14, 1935 – June 23, 2017)

[image: janet-yellen-false-prophet-of-prosperity] Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen recently predicted that, thanks to the regulations implemented after the 2008 market meltdown, America would not experience another economic crisis “in our lifetimes.” Yellen’s statement should send shivers down our spines, as there are few more reliable signals of an impending recession, or worse, than when so-called "experts" proclaim that we are in an era of unending prosperity.

[image: crude-oil-to-climb-to-60-a-barrel-claim-aramco-s-ceo-citi-and-goldman] Even as it predicts higher oil prices, OPEC is fighting a battle it cannot win, as U.S. producers continue to threaten the cartel's very existence.

[image: boston-taxpayers-fund-the-mocking-of-the-catholic-faith] Catholic taxpayers in Boston were forced to pay for the mocking of their own faith when a public library brought in lesbians dressed as nuns to mock the Catholic faith, along with men dressed as women to read to kids.

*Argentina: The Saucers of July 1947* *Luis Burgos* has posted a newspaper item from that very first "summer of saucers" in 1947 that will be of interest to INEXPLICATA's readers. The article appeared in the LA PLATA newspaper Saturday, July 12, 1947 on Page 5 with the headline: IRRADIANDO VIOLACEA LUZ APARECIO EL PLATO - a florid, passive voice way of saying: "The saucer appeared irradiating a violet light" followed by the subheading "La Plata Tiene la Primicia Sudamericana de Haber Observado Nítidamente el Fenómeno" (La Plata occupies the foremost place in South America in obser...more »

[image: undefined] Fear and loathing of Russia is all the rage in Washington, D.C., as both liberal Democrats and neoconservative Republicans unite in a campaign to demonize the Kremlin as “the premier and most important threat, more so than ISIS," as Sen. John McCain recently put it. While Hillary Clinton and her dead-ender supporters conjure a Vast Russian Conspiracy to hand the 2016 election to Donald Trump, and the neocons take advantage of this to push their longstanding hatred of Russian President Vladimir Putin, even ostensible libertarians are getting into the act. This may...more »

[image: undefined] Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen recently predicted that, thanks to the regulations implemented after the 2008 market meltdown, America would not experience another economic crisis “in our lifetimes.” Yellen’s statement should send shivers down our spines, as there are few more reliable signals of an impending recession, or worse, than when so-called "experts" proclaim that we are in an era of unending prosperity. For instance, in the years leading up to the 2008 market meltdown, then-Fed Chair Ben Bernanke repeatedly denied the existence of a housing bubble. In...more »

Many 2018 congressional candidates are delighted to campaign against Trump and to tie their opponents to him, especially the ones with big Trump vote scores. Several of the Blue America-endorsed candidates are running against far right GOP incumbents who literally have 100% pro-Trump voting records, as Doug Applegate has pointed out about Darrell Issa and Katie Hill has pointed out in the case of Steve Knight, who blatantly lies to his Santa Clarita/Simi Valley/Antelope Valley constituents in trying to pain himself as "bipartisan" and "mainstream." Randy Bryce's opponent, Paul Ryan...more »

* "We’re Good People, Really We Are!"* by Jim Kunstler "The disgrace of America’s putative intellectual class is nearly complete as it shoves the polity further into dysfunction and toward collapse. These are the people Nassim Taleb refers to as “intellectuals-yet-idiots.” Big questions loom over this dynamic: How did the thinking class of America sink into this slough of thoughtlessness? And why – what is motivating them? One path to understanding it can be found in this sober essay by Neal Devers, "The Overton Bubble", published two years ago on TheFuturePrimaeval.net - a friend ...more »

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